Quotes about Football
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
— Vince Lombardi
Miami Dolphins lineman, wrote in his book On God's Squad, "I guarantee you Christ would be the toughest guy who ever played this game. . . . If he were alive today I would picture a six-foot-six-inch 260-pound defensive tackle who would always make the big plays and would be hard to keep out of the backfield for offensive linemen like myself.
— Philip Yancey
My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.
— Ashton Kutcher
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
— Lou Holtz
I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.
— Tim Tebow
I'm blessed to play football for a living, but the true value of our work comes in how we uplift those in need of support.
— Mike Evans
Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.
— Vince Lombardi
Chad is a slim blond boy with a strange witch-doctor face that goes with his interest in anthropology and prehistory Indians, His nose beaks softly and almost creamily under a golden flare of hair; he has the beauty and grace of a Western hotshot who's danced in roadhouses and played a little football. A quavering twang comes out when he speaks.
— Jack Kerouac
I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.
— Tim Tebow
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
— Vince Lombardi
The opportunity to get Tom Brady. Like, that's Tom Brady, bro. Like that's the greatest of all-time. He's franchise changer.
— Mike Evans
It's football. Take that out of high school, it's church with no Jesus. Who would even go?
— Barbara Kingsolver